Just so this post contains useful information, I'm not adding the "Linkle acquires" hider to my word count. [hider=I need to put this here for two seconds] [center][color=darkgreen][h3]Linkle[/h3][/color] [color=darkgreen][b] Level 4[/b][/color] - (6/40) + [color=darkgreen][b]Location:[/b][/color] Peace's Castle, Yard [color=darkgreen][b]Word Count: [/b][/color][/center] [hr] Linkle squealed in delight as Peach just gave up the milk, totally for free. She shouln't have expected otherwise, such nobility of spirit was inherent to a true princess. "Thank you your majesty." She said, running over to pick it up. As she ran she felt a quick few pinches on the side of her neck and slowed to a jog. She looked down slightly dishearten at the somehow jagged bowstring that crossed her chest, part of which occasionally scraped across her neck. That was an annoying problem, but not as annoying as what she realized when she reached her destination. [hr] Last night, before falling asleep to the noise of the loud synchronized breathing of both of the Bowser's lying in the throne room just beyond her makeshift bed, she had decided to finish out the day with a bang. Or, at least, a pop. One by one she had smashed the spirits of the monsters she had slain, and had accumulated quite a collection of stuff to replace the hood she'd seen Junior using as a blanket. [hider=Linkle Acquires] [url=https://gamepedia.cursecdn.com/minecraft_gamepedia/6/65/Bow.png]Skeleton Bow[/url] an angular wooden bow that takes a second and some strength by even a practiced hand to draw. Arrows fired by it fly without any regard to wind deviation. Even normal use of the bow will result in its destruction after a while [url=https://www.canteach.ca/minecraft-pe/images/arrow.gif]Simple Arrow[/url] x4 – an angular and primitive but functional arrow. It itself has no special properties, but after getting a hold of one, its owner is able to make additional identical arrows by combining a piece of flint on top of a stick on top of a feather, which immediately become a finished arrow with no further preparation required [url=https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/crack-pack/images/9/9e/Creeper_heart_image.png/revision/latest?cb=20141125212435]Creeper Heart[/url] – an organ filled with volatile chemicals. Rupturing it will cause a strong explosion, but careful extraction could yield those very useful chemicals. Eating it is not recommended [url=https://gamepedia.cursecdn.com/minecraft_gamepedia/a/ae/Gunpowder.png]Gunpowder[/url] x2 – fine chemical grounds that detonate if exposed to fire or electricity. A useful reagent for crafting things [url=https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/darksouls/images/9/9b/Spider_Shield_%28DSIII%29.png/revision/latest?cb=20160613075528]Spider Shield[/url] – a shield belonging to savage mountain bandits. Grants resistance to poison [/hider] Everything was odd! She recognized the bow and arrows instantly from the few close calls she'd had with the skeletons, but seeing them up close it was a wonder that they flew at all. Linkle was no expert bowman (she'd stumbled upon a bow she could use during her travels but hadn't been able to do any flashy combos with it) but she was pretty sure arrows needed to be sleek to fly true and bowstrings weren't meant to look like they'd been whittled out of wood. Yet it worked, she'd fired one of the arrows at the far wall that night and the thing flew true and tinked off. There were a pair of weird looking...at first she'd thought they were burnt cookies but they didn't taste anything like burnt cookies! They tasted like sand. Well, no, not sand exactly, but in her mouth it had felt like some kind of powder. She wasn't sure what they were for, except maybe watching them float in midair when you put them down. They'd come from the spirit of one of the hissing exploding green things, along with what Linkle had just started thinking of ominously as [i]The Organ[/i]. It was like a cookie to, except it squished when you squeezed it and felt just like holding cooked meat. It smelled like the black cookies, and when you squeezed it had enough it started to [i]Hissssssss[/i] like the monsters had before they detonated. [/hider]